Her son William wrote: "My mother moved to Williamstown from Westfield after my sister Hattie had graduated from Normal School, and I had her company and counsel during my first year of college."
Jerusha graduated from the Hartford Female Seminary, and taught in Middletown "Upper House," where she met her future husband. Immediately after sher marriage she wnet to Persia, where she remained seventeen years.
Son of Seth Stocking and Hannah Pratt. He studied at Monson Academy in Mass.
Daughter of John W. Leeds of Stamford, Conn.
He was two-term Governor of Connecticut; U. S. Consul at Havana, Cuba; and Judge of Sluperior Court.